The Week Ahead: October Patch Week

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• The API project launched to great success last week! We've compiled some thoughts and answered some of your burning questions about Plugins in a dedicated blog today. Read it here!
• If you were due a pink Halloween mask yesterday but did not receive it: We identified and hotfixed a bug regarding this and you should receive the mask when you next login after todays update.

In case you missed it:

• Plugins finally arrived in RuneScape last Monday, and we updated the existing Plugins on Friday! Check out the patch notes from Mod Light here.
• Mod Light also hosted a dedicated livestream Q&A here where they interviewed Mod Jewel, our Plugin Moderator, and members of the Quest Helper team, ZoinkWiz and JosTheFarmer!
• We shared an update around known issues with the Jagex Launcher that some of you may be experiencing. Read more here!
• We shared the Hall of Fame list for the Week 1 kills of the Ghrazi Blood Knights at 2k Engage. Check it out here!
• Mod Anvil hosted a thread on Reddit last Friday: Truth and Reconciliation. This is part of a longer process into working with the community (not just reddit) to listen to your long-term perceptions and concerns and understand what we all, Jmods and community, can do to build a happier, kinder and more welcoming community. Mod Anvil will continue reading through your comments in the time ahead and may ask some follow up questions where possible.

What's happening this week:

• We'll be sharing a preview of our late-game rebalancing towards the end of this week. This will also include further details about the MTX Items that are being revised (which was previously scheduled for sharing last week).

JMod Comments Worth Highlighting:

RuneMetrics Web-API Changes

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Separate to the Client API (Plugins) project, our team has also been working with community web-developers to improve the way our web-API works.

As a bit of background, the RuneMetrics and Adventurers log API are scheduled to be sunset, as was announced earlier this year in January. These APIs are old, slow and cumbersome for anyone to interact with.

We're replacing them with a new API, which the game services team has been working on. We've worked with community developers, including the team behind RunePixels and Friendlybot, to ensure that the new API delivers all the information needed to keep their websites and services running, while stripping away the bloat of the old API that made it slow and awkward.

We're planning to integrate more information about this into our developer.runescape.com portal and our general API community and will be back latest next Monday with more information.

The RuneMetrics API will be fully sunset on November 10th, and we plan to share full details of the new API before then, perhaps even this week already. If you are using the older APIs for your own projects and things start misbehaving this week, do keep an eye out for our followup communication on this!

New Steam/Mobile Bundles

New Steam & Mobile bundles are now available, featuring Membership, RuneCoins and a selection of cosmetic rewards:

• 1 Month Membership Bundle: Brewster Pet + 200 RuneCoins
• 1 Month Bistromancer Bundle: Bistromancer Outfit + Bistromancer Staff + Brewster Pet + 420 RuneCoins + 3 Keepsake Keys
• 12 Month Bundle: Bistromancer Outfit + Bistromancer Staff + Brewster Pet + Forgemaster Outfit + Forgemaster Wyrm + 900 RuneCoins

Additionally these bundles come with "RuneScape: The Orchestral Collection" when purchased on Steam!

Patch Notes

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Havenhythe Part II

• Bring a little Havenhythe home with new furniture to unlock for your Player-Owned House!
• Bogolin totems and lighting: Visit Creekjoints in Linbog to unlock blueprints as you complete bogolin totems. Choose from four totem designs in three sizes, mossy skins, bog lights and swamp braziers. These furnishings use new crafting materials gathered from bogolin reward bundles.
• Mushroom decorations: Find Sneechbelly near Linbog’s farming patch to buy mycelium for eight varieties of mushroom to grow in your Player-Owned House.
• Quest celebrations: Speak to Anya and Inanna after completing Heralds of Crimson to unlock wolf statues and Anya’s opulent chaise longue.
• Achievement decorations: Unlock a miniature Colossi Statue by completing One Ten-Thousandth of a Milly, and your very own Havenhythe painting by completing your first forgotten painting. Additional painting variants unlock as you complete more.
• You can now also share your bogolin totem completion count through Quick Chat!
• Exalted essence can now be used at the Ourania altar.
• The altar now uses shared Runecrafting systems to apply XP and rune quantity modifiers more consistently. Percentage rune bonuses that would previously have rounded down now give a chance to receive an extra rune.
• Added in chat messages for the Havenhythe divination activity:
• A chat message now tells you which mural you have attuned to when the memory stone reaches 100%.
• A chat message now tells you when a mural has been updated.
• Fixed an issue which caused the Blood Knights' drops to incorrectly display on the Adventurer's log.
• Tiles are now restored at the end of the boss fight, allowing players to re-enter without being blocked by the arena’s destruction.
• Corrected a typo in Lady Ghrazi's and Lady Karmini's examine text.
• Fixed an issue causing abilities that trigger based on npc health to not calculate correct damage.
• This includes fixing bloodlusted flurry, punish, pernix quiver, ripper demon and legatus emberstaff at these bosses:
• Blood Knights
• Flesh-hatcher
• Twin Furies
• Lady Karmini, the Ghrazi Blood Knight pet is now correctly a requirement to unlock the 'Insane Final Boss' title.
• Resolved an issue that would in some cases cause a Knight to attack the wrong target in phase 3.
• Havensilver weapons now grant their damage and accuracy boost against the heart and sanguine tumours.
• Resolved an issue that sometimes would cause the heart to rotate in phase 3 whilst being attacked.
• Removed the buy option from the crate of tomatoes that was unaccessable in Globin village.
• Re-centered the entrance for Hollow Hill.
• Updated the colour of the text that appears in chat when bogolins speak so it's easier to distinguish between other chat messages.
• A beer in the Heathervein pub now correctly appears on the table instead of under it.
• Updated the clickbox for the totem deposit pile in the bog to prevent clicking through.
• Sundown stout now correctly boosts constitution by 5 levels.
• Removed a duplicate entry for Ravenous Strigoi when using the Slayer master cape to select your task.
• Fixed an animation causing Bogolin woodcutters arms jolt between different animations.
• Havensilver bars can now be removed from the ore bank when interacting with an anvil.
• Fixed an issue that was causing capes to behave unnaturally when fletching totems.
• Updated the notification message for the Scraps perk when chopping petrified trees.
• Updated the maximum number of fairy rings in the discovered section from 58/59.
• Added 5 new impling spawn locations to the new Havenhythe areas. Also slightly increased the number of implings that can now spawn in total across the entire world.
• Fenmoor woodcutting:
• Fixed the eastern tree brazier so it shows being visually empowered.
• Increased wood storage capacity from 100 to 150.
• The Bogolin sogtorch and fenshell knife can now be used to cast bladed dive.
• Empowered braziers have a new buff bar icon.
• Petrified knots can be added to already empowered braziers to extend their duration.
• Players can now burn petrified logs, bark and roots at an empowered brazier.
• Adjusted colossi divination reward modifiers to be more favorable towards the bat mural; overall XP & energy per hour is unchanged.

General

• Demon Flash Mobs now spawn exclusively at six locations across the Wilderness.
• Fixed an issue that blocked players from accessing NPCs on the roof of The Last Call.
• Trees near the Radiant Wisp Spring have been uprooted and replanted further away from the spring.
• Ivar's bone club no longer jitters during his death animation.
• Hill giant's bone club no longer jitters during their death animation.
• Fixed an issue where some activity progress bars could show the default Big Boss title instead of the correct activity or boss name.
• Harvest Hollow Portal Nexus has been moved to Grandmaster Portal Nexus
• The Scroll of Gathering is now properly removed from the Toy Boxes upon being read.
• Fixed an issue where Korasi's sword special attack could not be used when using Classic Combat Mode
• Fixed issue where top section of wizard tower on tutorial island remained visible with remove roofs toggled on.
• Fixed issue where 'Learning the Ropes' quest was appearing as incorrect difficulty.
• Harvesting multiple crops while using a patch bomb or farming skillcape now awards the correct amount of reputation at the player-owned farm.
• Updated the ladder in the Barbarian Outpost's Agility Training area to no longer have a gap between floors.
• Updated some of the rare relics to utilize a rare component table when disassembled.

Hotfixed last week

• Fixed an issue where lapsed players of over 6 months could not complete the tutorial if they had lapsed within character creation.
• Fixed an issue where May's Quest portal could teleport players to tutorial island.
• Players who have previously completed tutorial island should not get an achievement pop-up for the 'Learning the Ropes' quest on login.

What's Happening in the Community

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Community Creations

Runetube

Scapers' Screenshots

Pink Skirts Player Events

Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:

Zemouregal & Vorkath

• When: Tuesday 27th October, 17:50 Gametime
• Who: Jordyre & Fast Sc
• Who: Doctor Brian, Skylin and the Gielinor Gatherings team
• Where: Fort Forinthry
• World: 87
• FC: Doctor Brian

Croesus (Learner Event)

• When: Wednesday 28th October, 18:00 Gametime
• Who: Redwigon & Aarie
• Where: Croesus front
• World: 76
• FC: Ahelp

Community Skill n Chill

• When: Monday 26th October, 02:00 Gametime
• Who: Firesteal918, Princess Rae & Spirits of Arianwyn Clan
• Where: Fort Forinthry
• World: 116

If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!

Community Spotlight

ScreenieScape

This week's Affiliate Spotlight shines on ScreenieScape, a friendly community for players who love capturing and sharing screenshots from across Gielinor. Members share their best shots, exchange editing tips, and find inspiration from each other's creations.

The community also hosts themed in-game meetups, bringing players together for group screenshots and a bit of fun along the way. Whether you're an experienced screenshotter or just getting started, everyone is welcome.

Join the community:ScreenieScape Discord

Upcoming Event: Ghost-Train & Halloween Party ????

The ghosts are rising in the City of Um once again!

Take a break and join ScreenieScape's annual Ghost-Train, where players gather to haunt the streets of Um before posing for some spooky group screenshots.

When: Friday, 30 October 2026, 21:00 Game Time Where: City of Um, near Death

Don't forget:

• Bring a glowy bedsheet.
• If you don't have one, start Ghost Ahoy! to obtain it.
• Wear your best Halloween Fashionscape for group screenshots after the event.

Come along for a spooky night of ghosts, screenshots, and community fun! ????????

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- The RuneScape Team

Mods Alex, Anvil, Astra, Azanna, Bak, Blkwitch, Boko, Brat, Breezy, Brig, Camel, Chaose, Dark, Daze, Desert, Dorn, Dragon, Drew, Drewid, Easty, Echo, Evad, Fallen, Forza, Fox, Frosch, Grace, Gunner, Helen, Kaiju, Keyser, Kristy, Light, Lilith, Lucifer, Luma, Lykos, Lynx, Makkari, MIC, Mohawk, Morty, Nemo, Neong, Nixon, Pearce, Peppy, Perpetua, Pickle, Pigeon, Rain, Ramen, Rat, Reaper, Rowley, Ryan, Samy, Shiba, Shrew, Shrike, Socks, Soul, Sponge, Sukotto, Titus, Tri, Vegard, Volta, Who, Wov, Yuey & Zura

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